The Old Patagonian Express
ISBN-10: 0140249796
ISBN-13: 9780140249798
$21.53
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Gardners Books
Published on
May 30, 1996
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
5.16x1.02x7.87 Inches
Weight
0.71 Pounds
About the Book
The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encounters - thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Lim n and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to 'the end of the line'.